The following article, A 1776 Moment, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. The video below resonated with me like few things have. I’m not a flag waver or “my country right or wrong” proponent and I have never felt “proud to be an American”- not because I have any shame or regrets, but because I don’t feel I’ve done anything to earn the right to be proud. … Continue reading A 1776 Moment ...

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This column has noted, multiple times over the course of this year, that the 2024 presidential election has taken on the character of the literary trope of the Hero’s Journey. And today, the final chapter in that story will be written by the American people. If you’re unfamiliar with what the Hero’s Journey means, it’s pretty simple: The New Testament is an example of the Hero’s Journey. The Star Wars–Luke Skywalker saga is the Hero’s Journey. Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were also good examples. Paul Atreides in the Dune books and movies is another. The hero begins as something desirable and ends as something more, usually something great. Along the way, he’s presented with massive, perhaps insurmountable obstacles, and he has to change and grow to overcome them. Who he was at the beginning of the journey was not enough to succeed; he must become more. And the Hero’s Journey is also marked by villains. Often, the villains make the story more than the hero does. The evil nature of those in the hero’s way is what makes the journey most compelling, because without that, this is just some partisan story. Along the way, Donald Trump became more than he was at the beginning of this cycle. And that is why he must complete the journey and become the 47th president-elect of the United States when the results are announced tonight. (I’m assuming they’ll be announced tonight. If they are not, it is a clear sign that the evil forces with which this hero has done battle are not vanquished.) To be honest, there was a time following the disappointment of the 2022 midterm elections when a compelling argument could be made that America needed to take much of what Trump offered in his first term, preserve it, perhaps improve on it, and then move on to something newer, younger, and stylistically more appealing. That was the value proposition that Ron DeSantis, and a few others, brought to the table in the GOP primaries. For a time, DeSantis was highly competitive with Trump in early polling. His campaign had a few flaws that showed up as Trump leaned on him with aggressive rhetoric and vigorous trolling, but what killed DeSantis’ bid to embark on his own Hero’s Journey, at least in this cycle, were the villains. This election has always been about the villains. As was the 2016 election. The 2020 election should have been, but with the fog of COVID and the massive amounts of public deception obscuring the voters’ choice that year, there wasn’t the clarity we have now. The clarity began to come when the Biden administration sent the FBI to raid Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Then he was indicted in New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Washington. Trump was sued, essentially for rape, by a woman who couldn’t even identify what year the supposed attack happened. Then he was hauled into court for “fraud” over a dispute over real estate valuations offered as collateral for business loans major banks underwrote and issued — and those loans were paid back. In each case, it was clear the judicial system was weaponized against him by corrupt Democrats in partisan jurisdictions where Republicans can no longer get a fair trial. As an aside, I don’t know that Daniel Penny is a Republican, but I imagine he is one if he’s at all political. Penny was the ex-Marine who defended New York subway passengers from a crazed homeless drug addict threatening to kill someone, and he’s being put on trial for having done so. Penny is reputed to have killed the homeless man, but it turns out that he was very much alive when Penny finished with him but in the throes of a drug overdose. Testimony in legal proceedings last week determined that first responders refused to give the homeless man mouth-to-mouth because of a fear of getting hepatitis. This after Penny has spent countless thousands of dollars defending himself in court to date; New York prosecutors knew all along that he wasn’t prosecutable, and yet they persist. This is the jurisdiction where the majority of Trump’s legal troubles come from. When attempts to take away Trump’s fortune and freedom sagged, then came the slander. Trump has been slurred as a dictator and a Nazi. He’s been tarred as Hitler again and again by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the entire “mainstream” legacy corporate media, and every two-bit Democrat politician from the D.C. swamp and across the blue islands of urban America. The level of rhetoric thrown his way in this election cycle is like something from the very beginnings of American democracy, when John Adams’ and Thomas Jefferson’s camps accused each other of rape and pillage with utter alacrity. Never in the media age has anything so irresponsible been unleashed on a major party political candidate. And with a very specific purpose: to gin up potential assassins. Of which two emerged: one on a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania in mid-July, the other on a Palm Beach golf course just before Trump arrived on the fifth green. Both would-be assassins fit the mold of losers radicalized by anti-Trump propaganda. You’d have thought the two assassination attempts would have cowed Trump’s enemies, lest they give away their obvious casting as villains. You’d be wrong. They’ve doubled down since. And to prove their commitment to the “democracy,” they accuse Trump of threatening, they staged a coup in their own party, throwing out Biden after Trump annihilated him in an early debate and installing Harris as their candidate. She’s run a fact- and truth-free campaign fraught with lies, obfuscations, and evasions, claiming to be the candidate of joy while running on anti-Trump fear, rejecting old stances in a mishmash of campaign rhetoric that convinces no one that her radical days are over, and hiding from real interviews as often as she could while disqualifying herself when she couldn’t. The Kamala Harris campaign has been an exercise in political villainy in both great and petty things — baiting and switching conventioneers and event-goers in Chicago and Houston with promises of Beyonce concerts, employing ActBlue money of dubious — and quite possibly foreign — origin in the most expensive campaign effort in American history, deluging the public with attack ads calling Trump names and employing, in “We Can’t Go Back,” a campaign slogan that is utterly sinister in its background message. “We Can’t Go Back” is a threat of street violence in the event Trump wins the 2024 election. Harris’ threat that if Trump wins, there will be no more elections is projection at best and a preemptive declaration of war more likely. The Left offered a taste of civil unrest in Trump’s first term; now, with his second coming close at hand, there is little indication of restraint in the coming days if they don’t get their way. The villains have shown themselves. But so have the heroes. And this cycle has offered us not just Trump’s journey. He isn’t doing this alone. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his third-party campaign and threw his lot in with Trump, something a year ago none would have predicted, this campaign stopped being about just Trump. It stopped being about the basic ideological fight. It started to become our national Heroes’ Journey. Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan released a compelling web ad outlining just how deep and wide the movement to elect Trump promises to be today: This is the best Trump ad to date. We are never going to have a team like this again. Go and vote. Leave it all on the field and win! pic.twitter.com/9O5Hx6ku3B — Michael Sebastian (@HonorAndDaring) November 3, 2024 Kennedy, who threw away his family’s Democrat legacy to cross the aisle and work to save the country. Tulsi Gabbard, who switched parties when it became obvious that the neocon chicken hawks were now lined up on Team Harris after two decades of endless wars and national disgrace at their hands. Elon Musk, the single greatest American capitalist alive today, who threw $44 billion of his own money into saving free speech by turning Twitter into X, and, having seen the utter corruption and tyranny of which the Biden–Harris Deep State was capable, has now thrown massive resources at rebalancing American elections thrown so out of whack in 2020 (and, to a lesser extent, in 2022). Vivek Ramaswamy. JD Vance. Glenn Youngkin. Riley Gaines. Kevin O’Leary. Scott Jennings. Tucker Carlson. Charlie Kirk. The list of people putting their careers, fortunes, and reputations on the line for the Trump team is endless. So much passion transcends a personal love for Trump. He’s become more than he was. He’s now a symbol for the ordinary, commonsense American, tired of the corruption and abuse at the hands of our ruling elite. His scars are our scars, and his quest is now our quest. To his credit, Trump has shouldered that burden. He’s become much more disciplined on the campaign trail. He speaks much less of himself and much more of regular America. He talks of policy more than he has. And rather than waste time trying to slug it out with the Propaganda Press, Trump has gone to the American people where we are, doing countless podcasts and independent media interviews where his message can be distributed without the warping and distortions so inherent at ABC, CBS, and the other alphabet soup networks. Trump outworked Harris, and Trump earned the victory he should achieve today. While Team Harris called the American people garbage, Trump showed his love for the country. We’ll find out if America loves him back. And if the results are free and fair and uncorrupted, we’ll see that America does. The Hero’s Journey will thus conclude as the Hero’s Journey must. And then another journey, that of reviving the America we love, can then begin. Subscribe to The American Spectator. The post The Hero’s Journey Ends Today, But How? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

If you want to stay up to learn the winner of the presidential election, maybe skip coffee and consider a three-day meth bender. The final NBC poll shows Donald Trump at 49 percent and Kamala Harris at 49 percent. The Leger poll taken for the New York Post also shows the same result. Ditto for the survey conducted by Emerson College. The RealClearPolitics poll of polls reveals a 49 percent stalemate as well. Couple this closeness with the convoluted way in which various states now collect and count ballots — a century ago, Calvin Coolidge knew on Election Night that he won — and Election Day can very easily become, as it did in 2020, Election Week. Coming up with comforting rationalizations seems like the best a nervous nail-biter can do. On the one hand, Donald Trump underpolled his final count in 2016 and, especially, 2020, when surveys showed Biden registering 3.9 points higher than he actually did on Election Day. Polls habitually undercount Trump. This, coupled with “the Bradley effect,” the name given to the phenomenon of surveys overestimating the performance of black candidates, suggests a better night for the Republican than, say, NPR/Marist College/PBS pollsters forecast. On the other hand, in a more recent election, 2022, Republicans underperformed both expectations and polls. Possibly the outrage over the Dobbs decision and the former president’s emphasis on the perceived injustice of the 2020 election that fueled Democrats fuels them again. On the one hand, in five of the seven swing states, including Pennsylvania, Democrats sit in the governor’s office, which awards them an infrastructure of organization unmeasured by polls. On the other hand, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, one of the two swing-state Republican governors, helped engineer a reversal in early voting that witnessed the GOP, trailing badly in this category in 2020, surpass Democrats by 45,000 voters heading into Election Day. On the one hand, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, hampered by fundraising disadvantages and allegations he made offensive comments on a porn site, may drag rather than ride on Trump’s coattails. On the other hand, North Carolina Republicans, 6 percentage points behind Democrats in 2020 early voting, edged Democrats by a point this time around. On the one hand, late-deciders generally swing toward the challenger. That’s Trump, right? Right? On the other hand, Harris, whose face appeared on the back of a milk carton at all during the Biden administration, in some ways feels like the challenger. The New York Times found late-deciders, albeit just 8 percent of the electorate, swinging 55 percent to 44 percent for the vice president. On the one hand, Republican registration surged vis-à-vis Democrats since 2022. On the other hand, this may merely align registration with existing voting patterns and not change anything on Election Day. On the one hand, Trump felt a momentum surge in October. On the other hand, it may have arrived too soon, as polls show that momentum stop and recede toward Harris in the closing days. On the one hand, women vote in higher proportions than men. Each candidate suffers from a gender gap among the opposite sex, but given that women represent a larger portion of the population and a greater proportion of them vote, this feels like worse news for Trump. On the other hand, Donald Trump surges among Hispanics and in one poll actually beats Harris. On the one hand, Donald Trump courageously raised his fist and yelled “Fight, Fight Fight” after an assassin came within centimeters of taking his life. How can he lose after winning so dramatically in Butler, Pennsylvania? On the other hand, Democrats replaced Biden with Harris, who performed better than Biden in a debate setting, ran a more effective campaign, and infused life to a moribund party. On the one hand, one can mine the internet for data, factoids, and historical context that provide comfort by buttressing the idea of one’s desired result. On the other hand, nagging doubts last for both sides until officials count the final votes in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and beyond. Tuesday may prove a long night’s journey into day — and then into another day or two. READ MORE: Early Turnout: Harris Falters Among Black Voters Peanut the Squirrel and the Coercive State The post Election Day Offers as Many Reasons to Believe as to Doubt appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Over the weekend, the internet was ablaze with posts about a squirrel in a cowboy hat. Even big names and political players like Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. were posting about “P’nut.” For those unfamiliar with the story, New Yorker Mark Longo adopted an orphaned squirrel named P’nut seven years ago, along with a raccoon named Fred. The squirrel and raccoon quickly became popular on social media sites like Instagram and TikTok, garnering a decent-sized following. Longo subsequently opened an animal sanctuary and rescue operation, inspired by taking care of P’nut. Last week, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation raided Longo’s home and euthanized both P’nut and Fred. I’ll admit that maybe four years ago this story would have barely registered with me. I am repulsed by the trend of young adults treating their pets like children, while simultaneously avoiding children through contraception or, when that fails, actually killing their children on the altar of abortion. Of course, Longo actually founded an organization devoted to taking care of wounded animals, which is not quite the same.  But, four years ago, I probably would have skimmed the headline and lumped it in with the treating-animals-like-children trend, without looking any further into the story. The firestorm of memes and eulogies unleashed on social media over the weekend would have been almost unintelligible to me. As I say, that would have been the case four years ago. Now, however, I find myself one of the voices crying out: “Justice for P’nut!” (RELATED: Peanut the Squirrel and the Coercive State) P’nut and Fred did not die in vain. Their deaths were tragic and, honestly, unnecessary, but they have not been for naught. Their deaths have viscerally and publicly exposed the petty bureaucracy, invasive virtue-signaling, and moral hypocrisy of the Left. In the America of the Democratic Party, children are raped and killed by grown adults who entered the country illegally and have been given free cell phones and preloaded debit cards as a reward for their crimes. The Democratic Party insists that these rapists and murderers are just as American as you, even though your ancestors pioneered every frontier and tamed every wilderness, instead of showing up to a fully developed nation and raping children while demanding handouts. In the America of the Democratic Party, military veteran Daniel Penny is arrested and prosecuted for daring to protect his fellow Americans from a crazed homeless man threatening others with death. Masculinity is demonized, because what the hell even is a man or a woman? Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are lauded as paragons of manhood, even though the former allegedly beat his girlfriend and the latter is one of the most clearly effeminate men to ever pursue the office of vice president. (READ MORE: Tim Walz Is the Embodiment of Oddity) In the America of the Democratic Party, voters who dare to confront and attempt to solve the most pressing issues of the day are smeared as “garbage” and “Nazis.” A man who puts his life on the line for the love of his country is reviled as “Hitler.” But men who mutilate their own genitals and dress up as the ugliest women you’ve ever seen are hailed as stunning and brave. Twenty-year-olds who burn the American flag and call for death to a nation they’ve never been to are praised as free thinkers. In the America of the Democratic Party, a grown adult who stabs a three-year-old child to death is sent to a hospital instead of the electric chair. Those who break our laws and enter the country illegally are treated to American hotel rooms instead of deportation centers. But raising an orphaned squirrel warrants a police raid and the execution of your pets. It’s true, they’re not just eating the dogs, they’re not just eating the cats, now they’re killing the squirrels. The deaths of P’nut and Fred are the perfect encapsulation of an America ruled by the petty bureaucracy, invasive virtue-signaling, and moral hypocrisy of the political Left. It’s a tragic but emotionally potent reminder for voters ahead of Tuesday’s election. Before heading into the voting booth, Americans need to be asking, “If the state will raid my home to take my squirrel, what would they do to take my Bible? My rosary? Or, God forbid, my children?” Do not let P’nut’s and Fred’s deaths be just another tragedy. Let it be the final push America needs. READ MORE from S.A. McCarthy: Kamala Harris’s Anti-Catholic Bigotry on Display Cardinal Burke Offers Guidance for Catholic Voters Trump, McDonald’s, and the Lost Art of Noblesse Oblige The post The P’nut Factor appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

This is part four of George Parry’s assessment of the 2024 election in Pennsylvania. Find part one here, part two here, and part three here. The Pennsylvania Department of State reports that, as of Nov. 4, 2024, 997,540 mail-in ballots have been returned by registered Democrats, 587,546 by registered Republicans, and 205,323 by “Others.” As previously discussed in this series, these numbers will change since mail-in ballots will be accepted up until 8 p.m. on Election Day.  But at present, the Democrat mail-in ballot advantage is 409,994 over Republicans. Each Pennsylvania county has a board of elections that, among other things, handles voter registration and the issuance of mail-in ballots. Anyone wishing to vote by mail must submit a signed and dated mail-in ballot request form to the board of elections of the county in which the applicant resides. The application includes the name and address of the applicant, identifying numbers from, among others, a Pennsylvania driver’s license or the last four digits of a Social Security number.   Once the application is processed, the county board of elections issues the mail-in ballot. A similar process exists for voter registration. (In addition, so-called “motor-voter” registrations through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation are also vetted by the county boards.) So it is that the county board of elections is the first line of defense when it comes to detecting fraudulent applications for both voter registrations as well as mail-in ballots. Last week the Lancaster County Board of Elections flagged approximately 2,600 suspicious voter registration/mail-in ballot request forms and referred the matter to Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams. According to Adams, many applications “appeared to have the same handwriting, were filled out on the same day with unknown signatures, and some were previously registered voters, and the signatures on file did not match the signatures on the application.” Lancaster County detectives have found false addresses, false personal information, mismatched Social Security numbers, and other issues. In cases where much of the information was accurate, detectives spoke to the applicants named in the suspicious voter registration applications and found that they had neither completed nor signed the forms. “At this point,” Adams said, “It is believed that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a large scale canvassing operation for voter registrations that date back to June.” “We have confirmed violations of our Crimes Code as well as our Election Code. We have all available detectives working on this. We are all hands on deck so that we can properly assess the validity of these applications in a timely manner,” she said. As of last week, at least 60 percent of the forms were determined to be fraudulent. This turned out to be the canary in the coal mine. Since then, similar fraudulent voter registration/mail-in ballot request forms have been detected in York, Berks, Cambria, and Monroe counties.  For example, following a regular review of voter registration/mail-in ballot request forms, the Monroe County Board of Elections identified approximately 30 “irregular” forms. These were referred to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office, which has determined that, so far, “several” of them are “fraudulent as they were not authorized by the persons named as applicants.” According to Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso, the forms in question were submitted by “Field+Media Corps,” a subsidiary of FieldCorps, an Arizona-based organization “working out of Lancaster County.” Similarly, York County officials report that FieldCorps submitted many of the forms under investigation in that county. Those forms were submitted on behalf of “Everybody Votes,” a national nonprofit voter registration organization.  Everybody Votes has issued a statement saying: “Our partners work diligently to ensure that all forms collected comply with all rules and regulations.” But Salena Zito, the best and most reliable political reporter in Pennsylvania, reports on X that the “Monroe County District Attorney said that the fraudulent registration forms were traced to FieldCorps whose clients included Biden-Harris, [Democrat U.S. Senator] Mark Kelly and Arizona Democrats. Calls to the number listed went unreturned and the FieldCorps website was mysteriously taken down.” Further to this point, Harmeet Dillon reports on X that FieldCorps has “been paid more than $2.9 million by Arizona Democrats alone so far this year, and hundreds of thousands by Mi Familia Vota, Democrats’ favorite vehicle for court challenges to tear down AZ voter protections!” Back in Pennsylvania, officials at the state and local level point to their investigations as proof that “the system works,” the fraudulent applications have been segregated, and the election is safe and secure. But they are missing the point or, more likely, whistling past the graveyard. There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania. How many similar fraudulent applications have been submitted to boards of election in those counties that have either failed to detect the fraud or simply looked the other way because it served their political purposes to do so? I’m talking about you, Philadelphia, and every other similarly disposed Democrat county in Pennsylvania. In short, how many fraudulent voters and mail-in ballots are already in the system and how many more are on the way?  We don’t know. It could be enough to flip the outcome of the election. And that’s a critical point of uncertainty to keep in mind as you ponder the polls and prognostications as Election Day approaches.  Now, Pennsylvania law allows a voter to apply for and cast a mail-in or absentee ballot all at the same time. Such an “on-demand ballot” process is done in person at the election office.  The deadline by which county election sites must receive such on-demand ballots was 5 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2024 (last Tuesday). Needless to say, this process is more cumbersome and takes more time than the act of voting in person on Election Day. As the Tuesday deadline approached, long lines of on-demand voters formed at the Bucks County administration building in Doylestown and satellite offices in Levittown and Quakertown. (Bucks is one of the so-called “collar counties” around Philadelphia. The registration edge there recently flipped from Democrat to Republican.) Despite voters waiting for hours, Bucks election officials closed down the lines around 1:45 p.m., well before the statutorily mandated 5 p.m. deadline. Hundreds of voters were turned away. That evening, RNC Chair Michael Whatley appeared before a Trump rally in Allentown, and announced that the Trump campaign had “just filed a huge lawsuit against Bucks County for turning away our voters.” “Democrat election officials are seeing our numbers,” he added. “They are seeing us breaking early vote records across Pennsylvania. They are terrified. And they want to stop our momentum.” Nice speech. But the 587,546 Republican mail-in ballots returned so far are less than the 595,570 mail-in votes for Trump in 2020. While it’s true that the Republican tally will increase by Election Day and may exceed the 2020 total, as noted above, the current Democrat mail-in ballot advantage is 409,994. So the lowering of the 2020 Democrat 1.4 million mail-in ballot advantage is simply the result of Democrats not casting mail-in ballots. Which means, of course, that those one million “missing” Democrats who have yet to vote by mail may well turn out on Election Day. In any event, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit alleging that election officials in Bucks County had turned away voters “without allowing the opportunity to even submit their applications”and “precluded them from voting by mail, as is their right under the Election Code.” The court promptly extended the on-demand ballot deadline to 5 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2024.  So that was a win for the Trump campaign. Well and good. Meanwhile, in Allegheny County, waiting early voters witnessed non-English-speaking persons being escorted to the front of the line to cast their ballots. They were being guided by representatives from “Vote Today PA,” an organization purportedly funded by Working Families Power, which advocates for “economic fairness, racial justice, gender equity, climate sustainability.” The county explained in a statement that the voters had needed the assistance of translators. So far, there have been no similar reports from elsewhere in Pennsylvania. Finally, regarding Kamala Harris’ increasingly heated and unhinged warnings that, if elected, Donald Trump will turn America into a Hitlerian dictatorship, let me close with this brilliant observation by the Babylon Bee’s Kyle Mann: “Behind closed doors Trump often complained about how he got rejected from art school and was constantly threatening to annex Poland.” That’s it for now. George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor and retired trial lawyer. He blogs at knowledgeisgood.net.  The post Report From Pennsylvania: Part Four appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

I have never seen so much doubt, worry, anxiety, fear and panic as we approach a presidential election.  All over the country, people are freaking out right now.  Democrats are freaking out because the early voting numbers are so dramatically different from 2020.  Republicans are freaking out because some of the latest polls show Kamala Harris leading in several of the most important swing states.  And just about everyone is feeling uneasy because we simply do not know what is going to happen on Tuesday night.  Will it be a super tight race that drags on long after Election Day?  Will Trump win in a landslide?  Will all the Democrats that didn’t show up during the early voting period magically show up on November 5th?  There are so many unanswered questions, and that is making lots of people extremely nervous. This is an election in which every vote could potentially matter, and some Republican members of Congress are sounding the alarm about problems that active duty service members are having in getting their votes in on time… Republican lawmakers demand answers from the Pentagon after military service members complained that they have not received enough absentee ballots to vote before Election Day. GOP Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Mike Waltz (R-FL) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin citing their “grave concern over deficiencies in the Defense Department’s protocols” for the U.S. military because they said the absentee ballot stockpile has been “depleted and had not been replenished.” “Our nation’s brave men and women in uniform brought to our attention that there has been inadequate education at the administrative level on how to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and fill in a federal write-in absentee ballot if their state-issued ballot does not arrive in time,” the letter reads. “Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished.” Was the lack of support for military voting just an “oversight”, or is something else going on here? We really need an answer to that question. Another twist that is getting a lot of attention is the fact that we are being told that getting voting results for Pennsylvania and Wisconsin could take longer than in other states… The Keystone and Badger states each prohibit election officials from beginning to open and count absentee ballots until 7 a.m. Election Day, when they must also deal with in-person voting. The Pennsylvania State Secretary’s office describes it this way on its website: “Hundreds of thousands – sometimes millions – of mail ballots are cast in every election, and current state law does not permit counties to begin opening these ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day. That means county election officials cannot even remove the ballots from the envelopes and prepare them to be scanned until that time – on a day when those same officials are also running more than 9,000 polling places across the state.” Those two states could potentially decide the election. Hopefully they will count quickly. Personally, I think that it would be a good thing for the nation if we have a clear winner on Tuesday night. But who would that clear winner be? Many Republicans believe that Donald Trump will win easily, but based on the latest polls many Democrats are entirely convinced that Kamala Harris will emerge victorious.  For example, Harris has a 4 point lead in the final PBS News/NPR/Marist poll… On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 4-point lead over former President Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Harris has the support of 51 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 47 percent – a lead just outside the poll’s 3.5-point margin of error. But that exact same poll has Donald Trump winning independents by 5 points… A little more than half of independents support the Republican nominee, a 5-point lead over Harris. Both of those things cannot be true. If Donald Trump wins independents by 5 points, he is going to win the election. Ultimately, it appears that a lot of these polls are deeply flawed, but that isn’t stopping some top Democrats from making very brash predictions. On Sunday, Michael Moore boldly declared that Trump is going to lose… As you know, I have been loathe to predict how I really feel the election is going to turn out on Tuesday. But I’m guessing by now you’ve picked up a basic sense from me that, contrary to the breathless punditry of how “dangerously close” this election is — It’s a tie! It’s a 50-50 country! It’s neck-and-neck! It’s kneecap-to-kneecap! Trump’s gonna win! — I have felt for a long time that not only is Trump going to lose (because, yes, I have a lot of faith in the goodness of my fellow Americans), but Kamala Harris is going to win, and win big. With crowd-size numbers that even Trump will be blown away by, meaning this is the last that we will see him (unless Dr. Phil does a live special from Epstein Island a few years from now). Will he be proven correct? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, Rasmussen’s head pollster is saying that we could potentially witness a Trump landslide… Former President Donald Trump is poised to secure a significant electoral victory, potentially “sweeping battleground states,” according to Rasmussen’s head pollster, who sees the current race favoring Trump in the national popular vote, suggesting a larger “political realignment” is underway, and foreseeing an outcome that could echo — or even exceed — Ronald Reagan’s historic landslide win over Jimmy Carter in 1980. In a striking forecast days before the 2024 presidential election, Rasmussen’s head pollster, Mark Mitchell, is suggesting that Donald Trump will secure a strong lead nationally and dominate in key battleground states, positioning him for a sweeping victory. Mitchell even foresees a potential flip of Virginia and New Hampshire, adding that other states, like Minnesota or New Mexico, might follow suit. It would take an enormous Republican turnout on Election Day to produce such a landslide, but without a doubt the numbers during the early voting period look really good for Trump. After looking over the early voting numbers, Sean Hannity came to the conclusion that Kamala Harris has “a math problem”… Hannity said, “Look, let’s start out with where we are with early voting. Going into tomorrow, we’ve got to keep this in mind, everyone at home, please keep this in mind, we have 80 to 90 million more Americans that will vote tomorrow. That’s a lot of votes that have yet to be cast. Going in, Kamala Harris has a math problem and that is that they way underperformed especially in the swing states in terms of what their target numbers needed to be to go in with the lead that they wanted and they just didn’t get there. They’re way off, they’re off by double digits based on all the numbers I’ve been studying and seeing and we all go over. So what she now has to do is something the Democratic Party has never really pulled off before. That’s her challenge, that is to get people to the polls day out. Do I think that Ricky Martin, Lady Gaga, and J. Lo, Willie Nelson are going to put it over the top? I don’t really think so. I think the days of Hollywood celebrities, you know, influencing people are long gone.” I believe that Hannity is right. If millions of Democrats that did not show up during early voting do not show up on Election Day, Kamala Harris is going to lose. And if Kamala Harris loses this election, it will unleash a flood of negative emotion like we have never seen before. Right now, important buildings all over Washington D.C. are being boarded up in anticipation of what might happen… Businesses in Washington DC were on Monday boarding up their windows as security fencing went up around the White House, US Vice President Harris’s residence, and other key buildings in the capital. Fights have broken out at polling stations and election workers have prepared for gun attacks, amid a flurry of threats to blow up political offices and other sensitive sites ahead of election day. And in the state of Washington, the National Guard is actually being activated… Washington Governor Jay Inslee is activating the Washington National Guard ahead of election day, according to KING 5, and neighboring state Oregon isn’t far behind. The action by the governor follows two recent ballot box arsons in Portland and Vancouver, Washington, in late October, which destroyed hundreds of ballots. Officials are still seeking a suspect. Governor Inslee announced that some National Guard members will assist local law enforcement and the State Patrol, with the exact number yet to be decided. Once a winner is known, I believe that there will be widespread chaos. But it won’t just be temporary. I am entirely convinced that we are entering a period of long-term chaos for the entire nation. We are a nation that is bitterly, bitterly divided, and I don’t think that anyone will be able to bring us back together. The election may be ending, but an alarming new chapter in our history is just beginning, and nothing will ever be the same again. Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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